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tation concealing the water through which the trails are at least knee deep 

 in soaking wet muck ; the " cypress heads," clusters of bushes, etc., gathered 

 about cypress roots, causing the appearance of slight elevations in the prairies ; 

 the wetter " bays " where cypress and black gums grow ; and the still wetter 

 portions of the swamp where the depth of the water prevents the vegetation 

 reaching the surface and forms runaways and long narrow lakes, once useful 

 to the Creeks and Seminoles as they are now to the few hunters and natives 

 who know the trails through the swamp. Each of these features was copiously 

 illustrated and the botanical characteristics of each, based on data supplied by 

 Messrs. Stewartson Brown and Roland M. Harper, were covered in some 

 detail. 



The different expeditions that have penetrated the swamp were men- 

 tioned and especially the various journeys by Mr. Harper, starting from 

 Waycross, where the tramways of the Hebard Cypress Co. are of assistance. 

 Professor Bradley said he had entered by that route, also by way of Folkston, 

 but preferred the route by way of Fargo, on account of the rough wagon road, 

 which though deep in water in many places, permitted of taking supplies into 

 the heart of the swamp. 



Dealing with the entomological features, the speaker referred especially to 

 the Tabanids, abundant everywhere. Tabaiius mexicanus, locally called the 

 green cowfly, appeared at daybreak in great numbers, swarming about the tents 

 like a swarm of bees and again at night when the cows came home. Diachlora, 

 locally known as the yellow fly, was very abundant and very annoying in the 

 swamp. Dragon flies were also conspicuous by their great numbers and were 

 occasionally so tame as to permit of lifting them gently by hand. Libellula 

 vibrans, axillena and incesta were the commonest species about the tent ropes 

 and buildings ; auripennis mixed with them, more or less commonly. Epiccschna 

 heros in countless numbers sped unceasingly back and forth in search of gnats 

 and other prey. Pachydiplax longipennis, Celithemis ornata, Mesothemis sini- 

 plicicollis, Hetcerina tricolor and titia, Erythemis mimtsciila, Anomalagrion 

 Itostatiim and Agrion apicale were all common on Billy's Island or along Billy's 

 Lake, and Agrion maculatum in the deeper parts of the swamp, but Celithemiis 

 fasciata, C. eponina, Erythemis berenice, Tramea omista were rarely seen, far 

 less common than outside the swamp. 



Professor Bradley laid stress upon the great numbers in which certain 

 species occurred and the equally conspicuous absence of other species common 

 in the surrounding region of southeastern Georgia, outside the swamp, includ- 

 ing naturally those which failed to find food plants in the swamp and those 

 which generally follow human habitations. 



In Hymenoptera there were five species of B ambus, several Polistes, but 

 apparently no Vespa. In Lepidoptera Caliphiliis cacniiis was found in the 

 piney woods, and Papilio glaticus tiirnns and P. palamedes clustered in such 

 numbers about a damp place as to permit once of 50 individuals being covered 

 by a single stroke of the net. These proved later to be all males but one. 

 P. troilus was scarce and other Papilios like ajax, cresphontes and philenor 



